Neon Trees Confirmed as Taylor Swift’s Special Guests

Neon Trees Confirmed as Special Guests For Taylor
Swift’s the Red Tour!

Taylor Swift has
confirmed that US chart toppers Neon Trees will be joining
her as the main support for the New Zealand RED tour
shows.

Neon Trees’ lead single ‘Everybody Talks’
raced to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and became
the band’s second platinum single in Australia, charting
in the Top 10 here. Fresh from their own sold out headline
shows in Sydney and Melbourne, their announcement on the
Taylor Swift tour is sure to delight their many Aussie
fans.

This won’t be the first time that Neon Trees and
Taylor Swift have shared a stage however. Taylor recently
invited Neon Trees lead singer Tyler Glenn on stage with her
during her RED Tour for a special performance of
‘Everybody Talks,” telling the New Jersey audience that
she’d “called up one of my favourite lead singers from
my favourite band to sing one of my favourite
songs.”

Tyler Glenn recently told Australian music site
Getmusic that the band were mutual fans of Taylor’s
saying, “we’d known that Taylor had been a fan of ours
for a few years, we’d always been a fan of hers, we
thought she was clever and she covered ‘Animal’ on her
tour for the last record, and we were really surprised by
that...she said she wanted me to come sing with her [in
Newark]…I was so blown away that everyone was so excited
that I was a special guest.”

Notably, Taylor Swift will
be the first solo female in twenty years to undertake a
national stadium tour of Australia, with the last being
Madonna’s Girlie Show tour in 1993, also promoted by
Frontier Touring.

Taylor Swift was the big winner at the
recent Billboard Music Awards, sweeping the top all-genre
categories and taking home eight awards. Taylor won Top
Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist (her second win in this
category in three years), Top Female Artist, Top Digital
Songs Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album (for RED), Top
Country Artist, Top Country Album (for RED), and Top
Country Song (for “We Are Never Ever Getting Back
Together”).

Released in October of last year, RED
has already sold more than 5.8 million copies worldwide,
including 1.2 million in the U.S. in its first week of
release, music’s biggest first-week sales number in more
than a decade. Called “the slickest, smartest and just
plain best mega-pop statement of our time” by Rolling
Stone, and “sublime….required listening” by
Entertainment Weekly, RED set a new worldwide
iTunes record for highest ever first-week album sales, and
reached #1 on iTunes and national sales charts in 50
countries around the globe.

Tickets to The RED Tour are on
sale now, with some shows close to sell out. Hurry –
because you don’t want to miss out on this one!

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